U.S. 'hikers' in Iran are released

U.S. 'hikers' in Iran are released

Jumana El Heloueh/Reuters

Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal and Sarah Shourd, U.S. hikers who were held in Iran on charges of espionage, wave before boarding a flight back home in Muscat on Sept. 24. The three hikers were arrested by Iranian forces in July 2009 near the unmarked border with Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq, on suspicion of spying after crossing into Iran from Iraq. Bauer's fiance Sarah Shourd was released in Sept. 2010 after 410 days in solitary confinement.

Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal and Sarah Shourd, U.S. hikers who were held in Iran on charges of espionage, wave before boarding a flight back home in Muscat on Sept. 24. The three hikers were arrested by Iranian forces in July 2009 near the unmarked border with Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq, on suspicion of spying after crossing into Iran from Iraq. Bauer's fiance Sarah Shourd was released in Sept. 2010 after 410 days in solitary confinement. (Jumana El Heloueh/Reuters)

Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal and Sarah Shourd, U.S. hikers who were held in Iran on charges of espionage, wave before boarding a flight back home in Muscat on Sept. 24. The three hikers were arrested by Iranian forces in July 2009 near the unmarked border with Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq, on suspicion of spying after crossing into Iran from Iraq. Bauer's fiance Sarah Shourd was released in Sept. 2010 after 410 days in solitary confinement.